A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and civil rights campaigner, Ida B. Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. She dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, advocating for African-American equality, especially for women. She was a diligent and resourceful researcher, whose important work exposed the true horrors and injustices of her world, while offering solutions to improve the lives of her fellow Americans. This eBook presents Ida B. Wells’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wells’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the major pamphlets and articles, with individual contents tables
* Rare essays appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes Wells’ rare magazine articles
* Features one biography – discover Wells’ incredible life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order
Please note: Wells’ autobiography ‘Crusade for Justice’ was partly written by her daughter and so cannot appear due to copyright restrictions.
CONTENTS:
The Works
Southern Horrors (1892)
Lynch Law in All its Phases (1893)
The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)
A Red Record (1895)
Lynch Law in Georgia (1899)
Lynch Law in America (1900)
The Negro’s Cause in Equity (1900)
Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900)
Lynching and the Excuse for It (1901)
Booker T. Washington and His Critics (1904)
Lynching, Our National Crime (1909)
The Northern Negro Woman’s Social and Moral Condition (1910)
The East St. Louis Massacre (1917)
The Race Conflict in Arkansas (1919)
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Articles and Stories
The Biography
Ida B. Wells (1893) by T. Thomas Fortune
